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For one group of friends

“We should get together sometime.”

Everybody says it. Everybody means it. Then a month goes past, and another, and the thing that was missing was never the affection — it was a date.

This app does the unglamorous part: it gets the date agreed, then remembers what you did.

I’ve been invited

Otherwise, ask the friend who told you about it.

A garden table at dusk with four empty chairs and string lights overhead

How a plan lands

Somebody floats it. Everybody taps.

  1. 1Float itAn idea with no date yet — “dinner in March?” It sits there, which is fine. Most plans die at exactly this point, and that is the problem.
  2. 2Pick the daysEveryone taps the dates they could do. The color builds up on the day that works, so the answer is obvious without anybody counting.
  3. 3Lock it inA person decides — never the app. Whoever said yes to that date is already down as coming, and the ones who never answered are shown as exactly that.
  4. 4Keep itAfterwards it asks for the photos, which is the moment they otherwise get lost. A year later they come back.

Which dates work?

Dinner + book chat

Ann floated this, sometime in March

  • Thu 5 Marevening2/5

    Ann and Meg can

  • Sat 7 Marevening4/5

    Ann, Meg, Priya and Dana can

  • Thu 12 Marevening1/5

    Priya can · Meg can’t

Still no answer from Dana — which is shown, because chasing her is the whole job.

Book clubCollege friendsyouNeither circle can see the other. Ever.

Private, structurally

Your book club never learns your college friends exist.

Each circle is sealed. Not by a rule somebody remembered to write in the code — by the database, which will not return a row from a circle you are not in, even if the app asks it to.

So there is no “people you may know”, no mutual friends, no notification that mentions a circle you cannot see. Two groups can share you and nothing else, which is how friendship actually works.

There is no public timeline, no discovery, no followers, and nothing is sold to anybody. It is a small private place, and it stays that way.

Why this exists

I built this for my wife. She has a few groups of friends she genuinely wants to see — and the same thing kept happening to all of them: everyone means it, nobody picks a date, months go by.

So I made her the app I could not find: private, no feed to scroll, no strangers, nothing to sell her. Somewhere a handful of people who already like each other can land a date and keep the photos afterwards.

Whether anybody else ever uses it, I have no idea. But it is here, it works, and if a friend brings you in you are welcome to it.

Built with Claude, over a few long evenings.

You get in when a friend brings you in.

There is no sign-up button, on purpose. Somebody already in a circle invites you by email, and that invitation is the door. It also means every person here was wanted by somebody.

I’ve been invited
My Circle of Friends — plans that actually happen